Animal Classification Crossword Puzzle

About the Animal Classification Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle covers how animals are grouped, from broad categories such as phylum and class to familiar groups such as mammals, insects, and reptiles. It also includes scientific terms like vertebrate, arthropod, and marsupial. Students learning biology, nature enthusiasts, and anyone curious about how animals are related can look for the names and concepts used in classification.

This crossword draws on 43 clues about Animal Classification. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Frog or salamander, often living on land and in water (9 letters)
• •Feathered, egg-laying vertebrate (4 letters)
• •Animal with a notochord at some life stage (8 letters)
• •Marine animal with rows of beating cilia (10 letters)
• •Planarian or tapeworm, for example (8 letters)
• •Rank below domain and above phylum (7 letters)
• •Roundworm, often microscopic (8 letters)
• •Scaly vertebrate such as a lizard (7 letters)

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